Old Photograph Barony and Castle of Kilbirnie Scotland

Old photograph of Barony and Castle of Kilbirnie by Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle is also known as the Place of Kilbirnie, The Place, or Kilbirnie House. Kilbirnie Castle is said to be the site where in 1263 the Scots mustered under Alexander III before fighting Norwegian forces in the Battle of Largs. The building is in two quite distinct parts: one a tower built in about 1470 for Malcolm Crawford and his wife, Marjory Barclay, an heiress and the last of her line; the other part is dated to 1627. The Honourable Patrick Lindsay purchased the castle and estate of Glengarnock in 1677 from Richard Cuninghame, the last of the Cuninghames of Garnock. In 1707 both baronies were united in the Barony of Kilburnie. The building was destroyed by fire early in the morning of 1 May 1757 during construction works, and never rebuilt. The 19th Earl of Crawfurd, his infant daughter Jean, later a Countess of Eglinton, and domestics had little time to escape. The family moved to the Barony manse at first and later to Bourtreehill House near Irvine. Lady Crawfurd was the eldest daughter and heiress of Robert Hamilton of Bourtreehill.



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Old Photograph Cromlix House Scotland

Old photograph of Cromlix House near Dunblane, Scotland. In the early 15th century Edmund Chisholm acquired Cromlix House. His son James became Bishop of Dunblane in 1487 and he was succeeded by William Chisholm. The early Chisholms were senior figures in the Church, in the Court of King James III and in the court of Mary Queen of Scots. William II Chisholm was the last Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunblane.



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Old Photograph Ochil Hills Hospital Scotland

Old photograph of Ochil Hills Hospital near Milnathort, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish hospital was built in 1902 as a tuberculosis sanatorium. The rationale for sanatoria was that before antibiotic treatments existed, a regimen of rest and good nutrition offered the best chance that the sufferer's immune system would " wall off " pockets of pulmonary tuberculosis, or TB, infection. Unused since the late 1980s, the main hospital building and associated annex buildings were demolished in 2003.



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Old Photograph Kippenross House Scotland

Old photograph of Kippenross House by Dunblane, Scotland. The Ros family owned the land east of the Allan Water from the 12th century and built a tower house in 1448 on a bluff overlooking the river. In financial difficulty they sold it in 1633 to James Pearson who was Dean of Dunblane Cathedral. The lairds second son William Pearson apparently lost the freehold of Kippenross to John Stirling of Kippendavie " at dice or cards. " The later John Stirling of Kippendavie, born 1811, died 1882, inherited the estate at the age of five when his family owned significant property in town and to the east side of Dunblane, including farms on Sheriffmuir, Kippendavie and Kippenross.



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Old Photograph Clarkston Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, church and car in Clarkston in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. When a new road from Paisley to East Kilbride was built through the area in the 1790s, a toll point was set up where it crossed what was then the main route from Glasgow to Kilmarnock. A man named John Clark built a house at the toll, and the name Clarkston came to be used for the locality. The Maxwell family, owners of the Williamwood Estate, on which Clarkston was situated) advertised the creation of a new village there in 1801, but initially it grew slowly. Clarkston at this time had no industry of its own, and villagers were mainly employed in the mills at nearby Netherlee. The area began to expand more rapidly following the opening of Clarkston railway station by Busby Railways in the village in 1866, and later the expansion of the Glasgow tram network to Clarkston in 1921. The 1920s also saw the final breaking up of the Williamwood Estate, encouraging further house building.



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